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Reform in Oman.S Dress,

Helen Campbell in Brooklyn Magazine
The reformed costume has failed to make
its way into popular favor; such costume
at any rate as emanates from Lady Hab-
berton and other inventors of the same or
der. 1t is impossible for the most ardent
advocates of reform to demonstrate that
beauty dwells in any of these. 1t was my
fortune to meet at a scientific convention
an English enthusiast who wore the divid-
ed skirt. She was fresh and fair and big,
with the deep chest voice of the healthy
English woman and the calmest defiance
of any law of beauty or proportion. Her
dress was gay poplin bag, separating
below, with a rut1e around the bottom,
and mere line of white appearing above
the neckband. 1t may have been comfor-
table, but it was also hideOuS. and no wo-
man with any real sense of what beauty
means would have tolerated it, even as a
sick garment. From the fashion precisely
as it stands to-day any woman can plan
for herself a costume easy, comfortable,
and most certainly graceful and becoming.
The short skirt clears the ground well, and
is thus neither worn nor SOlled. The dress
is often princess, made in one piece, and
thus instantly adjusted. The shoes are
low heeled and broad; the stockings black
or dark With half fitting jacket or long
cloak, perfect ease and looseness are both
possible, and sleeves may be as one will.
Woman's dress has never, in modern
times, been more really what it should be
in all its outward expression and adapta-
ton to modern needs. 1t remains to ban
ish all bands and ligatures; secure even
layers for the whole body; abolish hideous
steel punches, and support the dress so
far as it needs support by perhaps a
f1ounced back to the underskirt, and be
hold the modern woman emancipated. yet
not a terror.
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FaVOrS Jarvis for Governor.
From kinStOn Free Press.


The Free Press proposes the name Of
Governor Jarvis because we believe he will
be able to arouse more enthusiasm
bring out more voteS--rouse luke
warm and Indifferent people-because it
believes him to be the most popular man
in the State except Senator Vance We
recognize the fact that good work will be
necessary in the next campaign. We rec
ognize the fact that the Republicans will
work harder than thay have for years and
we need a man to head our ticket who
will do the most to strengthen it. While
we believe the struggle will be a fierce one
We do not believe the Republicans will be
able to carry the State if we nominate
good Democrat The Free Press would
take great pleasure in supporting Judge
Walter Clark, Lieut.. Gov. Steadman or
any other good Democrat and we believe
either would be elected. With Jarvis at
the head Of the ticket, however, the bare
possibility of defeat would not exist.
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Don't Experiment.

You cannot afford to waste time in ex-
perimenting when your lungs are in dan
ger. Consumption always seems, at first,
only IA cold. Do not permit any dealer to
impose upon you with some cheap imita-
ton of DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, but be sure
you get the genuine. Because he can
make more profit, he may tell you he has
something just as good, or just the same.
Don't be deceived, but insist upon getting
DR.. Kings New Discovery, which is guar
anteed to give relief in all Throat, Lung
and Chest affections. Trial bottles free at
Lee, Johnson e. Co., Drug Store
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North Carolina at West Point.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l

INIVCItII UI
WEST POINT, n. Y, June %, 1SS7.-The
entrance examinations to West Point were
held from the 14th to 21st of June. There
were one hundred and seventy reported for
examination. About twenty-five were
found deficient on the Physical, and forty
on the Mental examinations. One hundred
and six passed the examinations success
fully. Six boys reported from North Caro-
lima. Only three were successful: Doug
las Settle (son Of the Judge, Greensboro;
Chas G. Gidney two years at Uni. of N.
O., Shelby, and William Carter, States
vile. q.
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is danger of an epidemic of crimes rem
edy should be sought; but we are sure
there is nothing to fear, and the persistent
cry of wolf, wolf, in this connection can
only tend to produce the impression in
foreign parts" that we are a sad lot down
in the old North State Clinton eau
caSiaD
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CRIME DECREASING.

our criminal docket in Sampson Is not
more than half what it was ten years ago,
and We believe the same is true Of DuplIn.
Bevond few cases Of Assault and Battery,
and prosecutions to collect debts under
the statutes for disposing Of mortgaged
property, both which classes of cases can
scarcely be denominated crimes, there is
hardly anything on our docket. If there
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The Chinese and The Negroes.

[Rev w. F. Tillett III Nashville Advocated
The prejudice against the Chinese out
West is very strong At the hotels along
the railroad frequently saw what to a
Southerner was a strange slght-the
Chinese, without exception, compelled to
90 into the kitchen to eat, while the ne
groes all went unchallenged into the din
ing room with the whites.
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RALEIGH, N. G.. THURSDAY. JUNE 30 1887.
fOrted his widow with

IOrteU Ms WluoN WITH
My partner dear. as YOU draw near.
l"" EH>'find : grave You see,
Not a2n was with N1u.
BIT soon Noull be with 're.
\ teacher was always appreciated: at
lea>r. h'' had a monument when h. died
This l. from one.
''Mauldens Late
School Master from
\ Painful I.ete is
Gone To Take
His Rest His Lord
Hath Called HIM WHOM "
Here Is another
'Atilictions sore long time bore,
Physicians were in vain:
Till God did please to give me
And free he from my pain
This is on the headstone of lovely and
lovable young woman
Gould youth evade deth ; secret hour
Or beauty stem his tide:
Or virtue charm his fatal power,
Then Rachel had net died -
This, take 1t, shows we'll the Puritan
character:
HERE LYEs TIE MORTAL PART OF
WILLIAM CLARK, ESQ,
An Eminent Merchant in this Town, and an
Honorable Councillor for
the Province,
Who distinguished himself as a faithful and
affectiOnate
Friend fair and generous Trader,
LOYAL TO HIS PRINCE,
Yet always Jealous for the Freedom of his
Country, 2 Despiser OF
SORRY PERSONS
and little Actions. an enemy of Priestcraft
and Ent thusiasIn, a Lover of good Men
OF various Denominations, and
reverent Worshipper
of the DEITY >
have jotted down in my note book nu-
merOus others, which, with these are in
teresting, not in themselves alone, but as
throwing light upon the character of a pc
culIar people who have passed away.
COLLIER COBB
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W hat To Read.
IJohn Ruskin to a Student at Edinburg
University.l

lJohn Ruskin to a Student at Edinburg
University.l
For a Scotsman, next to his Bible
there is but one book, his native land but
one language, his native tongue-the
sweetest, richest, subtlest, most musical
of all the living dialects of Europe. Study
your Burns, Scott and Carlyle. Scott, in
his Scottish novels only, and of those only
the cheerful one, with the Heart of Mid
lothian but not The Bride of Lammer-
moor nor The Legend of Montrose," nor
The Pirate Here is a right list: WAY
erly, Guy Mannering,' The Antiquary,'
Rob Roy odd Mortality The Monas-
terry The Abbot Red Gauntlet The
Heart of Midlothian Get any of them
you can, in the old large print edition,
when you have a chance, and study every
sentence in them. They are models Of
every virtue in their order of literature
and exhaustive codes of Christian wisdom
and ethics. l have written this note with
care.
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4 in Every Respect.


The last issue of the Raleigh SEATE
CHRONICLE was an admirable one IN every
respect 1t was credit to the State, to
the teachers and to the energetic young
editor, Mr.. Josephus Daniels, who 50 ably
aud gracefully presides over its columns:
1t was an educational edition and was filled
to the brim with a great variety of vaua-
BILE information. 1t is worth preserving.
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NOT EXHAUS STED.
The judiciary of North Carolina Can't
be Exhausted.

be Exhausted.
In one of the Western counties, some
weeks ago, when Judge James G. MacRae
came III to open court, he began charging
the grand jury by telling them that he was
very sleepy He had not been able to sleep
any the previous night, because, in the
room adjoining his own, gambling was
carried on all night He heard them him
self, and he heard the bets made, the chips
rafting and the money changing hads.
The worst of it was, gentlemen, of the
jury said Judge MacRae, IAN officer Of
this court, (polnting to the Solicltor,) was
one Of the participants. You will, there
fore, bring in a presentment against hun
for gambling This the grand jury did,
and the Judge ordered the Solicitor to
draw bill against himself for gambling,
which the astonished Solicitor proceeded
to do.
Who says our judiciary is exhausted?
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MIR. kitchin Asked to Endorse CIeve.
land. Will He Do 1t.
ICOr. Weldon NeWS.l

The appointment of Mrs. F. W. Gregory
as postmstress at Crowells pleases every
body. Kitchin not heard from. Have
asked his approval of this one act of the
administration in the next issue Of the
Democrat
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The State Chronicle
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Uu1uIIg
BY THB-
chR0NIClEPuBLISHINo COMPANY
Subscription Htice- pay,hl. s,r,c,,, IN
v>." per Year et.'a frr : Z
HohIHs' ~ - envy Wv Three routi,
TRANSPORTATION.
\ vigorous aud TimrI, Protest A.ni,.,
Emrud ttiou>
Special Cor. S;rArf ,.uIo>rlr

Special Cor NrArf HruNIIEl
me last Issue OF yonr paper reproduced
from the N. {. Speaker Il brilliant poem
written by Mr. George II. Gorman a
young and gifted North Carolinian. The
poem wears, however, an UNAUTHORIZED
ana inappropriate title. The authors text
mas also been subjected 10y the compiler of
the speaker to other supposed emenda-
tlons, which are the reverse of felicitous
MI. norman entitled his poem ''Transfor-
hatlon. lhiS name was singularly taste
1ul and appropriate, combining grace.
terseness, and truth; in ALI. of which the
substituted title, IAN ANGEL IN THE MAR
BILE, Is sadly deficient. This unwarrant
ed mlsnOmer leaves the angel ''in duranca
vile, when, if we mistake not. the poet-
sculptor, with
"Mallet deft and chisel keen"
had freed theange from HIS stony environ
ment. (We use this pronoun adyisedly.
as it is outside the Bible only that we hear
of female angels.) The 9th stanza of Mr..
tdorman's poem originally stood as fol-
lows:
Sculptor of Souls, | lift to Thee
Encountered heart and hands,
spare not the chiSei;-Sct me free
FROM these accursed bands,''
This stanza is noble alike in thought and
expression. Its closing verse is nervous,
vlrlle-well-nigh vehement, giving elo-
quent utterance to the souls passionate
yearning for deliverance from the bondage
OF sln-from its pollution, no less than its
power. But the editor of the n G.. Speak
er, supposing, perhaps, that the epithet
ACCUSED" savored too much of profan-
ty for ears polite, has taken the liberty
(or llcenseo, to emasculate this vigorous
verse by substituting the word "ENsLAv-
ING, and thus We have "ENsLAvING BANDS
as though ALL bands were not "ENSLAv-
ING" This revised version is euphe-
mlstlc and Pathological, and sadly mars the
poem. The last line of the last stanza is
also botched, by being made to read, "An
angel thus of me, when the author had
written "An angel out of me"
We have called attention to this matter
because some protest should he publicly
entered against such tinkering of other
peoples literary wares, by publishers who
have been allowed to use them. A poet
possessed of becoming self-respect will
desire that what he writes should circu-
late just as he wrote it, To him its indi-
vlduality Is its chiefest charm. 1t may be
within the province of book editor to
SUGGEST improvements, but another's work
should not be published in altered form,
without his approval. AS TO The Old
North State, and other productions of
worthless who have passed away, they too
should be held as sacred from elision and
Interpolation, as from plagiarism. The
poets dead and gone should surely be per-
mitted, Ito hold in mortmtin still their
old estates" H.
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They Talk About Stedman nd DaV Vid son
[From Hickory Carolinian.

IT TUHl fICkOFy OaTNIlhIaN.I
This paper does not discuss politics, or
the claims of aspirants to office from a
political standpoint, but, among those
mentioned in connection with guberna-
torial honors are Maj. Stedman and Mr..
T. F. Davidson, the present Attorney Gen
eral, and we desire simply to remark that
two more chiyalric or courteous gentlemen
can not be found in the State, either of
whom would grace the gubcrnatorial of
flee Home and School.
How would these two do us IA team to
pull honest, sober Democracy to success
next year? Stedman and Davidson East
and West, united and victorious. There
is no better man for Governor than Sted-
man and the Cape Fear section has not
been represented in the Executive chair in
many years. Let it be Stedman and
Davidson.
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Ring Out Wild Bells.
IFrOm Danhurv Renorter 7

From Danbury Reporter.
Our people are safe now huckleberries
are getting ripe; the great trouble how
ever, is a scarcity of bells with which to
bell our brats SO that we can find them
when it begins to get dark.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-06-30

If you have catarrh, use the surest
remedy-Dr. Sage's.
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off house-top. Another, near by, dated
1908, reads
''Natively quick and spry
AS all young people be
When God commands them down To dust
How soon they drop you see.
Not far off is aplain stone with no anne
but containing this:
''She y'ts here Inter'd needs no Nersifying
A Nertuous life will keep her name from
dying
She'll live thou'h Poets cease their Serb
bling rime
When Vt this Stone shall mouldrd be by
Time"
In burial ground in New Hampshire
town is buried an old lady who We'll de
served monument. The stone at her
grave Commemorate the memory Of
Mrs. Joanna Farley. She was woman
eminent for industry, usefulness, and pie
ty. Having lived so years and having been
the natural parent of goo offspring. She
died Goth Aug, 1877.
In the same burying ground just back
of the church is the grave of a Dr.. Jones,
and the stone has carved upon ii these
lines:
''In youth he was scholar bright
In learning he took great delight,
He was majors only son,
1t was for love he was undone
poor LITTLE MAN.
On the headstone of girl of seventeen,
we read:
I'm faith she died in dust she lies,
But faith forsees that dust shall rise,
When Jesus calls while hope assumes
And boasts her JOY among the tombs.
A victim of accidental death says:
THAT sovereign God who set my bounds,
Saw tit to take my breath,
Be ready, then, each hour you live
To meet an instant death
Death seems to have been looked upon
as an awful fact and epitaphs were written
to inspire terror among the living. Here
is one from the grave of an eleven year old
girl who died in 1904:
aye thouehtless youths, come view the grave
Where you must shortly lay:
Your ruby lips and active limbs
Must mingle with my clay
Infidellty early gained foolhold here,
for in the church yard at East Thompson,
Conn, we read:
Here lieth the body of
Jonathan Richardson.
He never bowed at the altar of sup.rsti
tiOus God, and never believed that Jonah
swallowed the whale"
Others express hope in a hereafter.
'sMy flesh shall slumber in the ground,
Till the last trumpet'S joyful sound:
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise
And in my makers image rise"
Or this,
'She'S gone the suffering angles fled
Numbered her ashes with the dead,
But ., the joyful day will surely come
When we shall meet again; and meet at
Then part no more, but there supreamly
bleSt
live and enjoy Eternal peace and Rest. -
Another says:
Corruption, earth and worms
Shall but refine this flesh,
| Till my triumphant spirit comes,
To put it on afresh
God my Redeemer lives,
And often from the skies
| Looks down and watches all my dust
Till he shall bid it rise"
Here is literary curiosity of 1850:
''Shoon as the silver cord was loosed
| The Golden bool did break.
This youth he in the grave must sleep
| Till Christ shall him awake.
| The Glorious Sound shall rend the sky
And pears the darktOm Cave,
| This youth he then shall hear the sound
And leave the rOtting grave.
This is quite abundant,
"Friends and physicians could not save
My mortal body from the grave
Nor can We grave contine me here
When Christ shall call me to appear
| In 1891 some thoughtful husband com
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81 Love Her Better than Life.''

Well. then, why don't you do something
to bring back the roses to her cheeks and
the light to her eyes, Don't you see she
is suffering from nervous debility, the re-
suit of female weakness. a bottle of
Dr. Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription will
brighten those pale cheeks and send new
life through that wasting form. If you
love her. take heed
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PECULIAR EPITAPHS
ILLUS rRATIVE OF THE BELIEFS
OF THE OLD TIME PURITAN.

Prof. Collier Cobb :"n His Ge"!"sical Ex-
cur>ions Through New England. Car
ries II Note BoOk--SOme Extracts.
Especial Cor. STATE CHHoNICLE.l
BAR HARBoR, Me-, June 16 1sS1.-A
few days ago friend of mine, while walk
ing on the Common in Boston, was APP
preached by shabby looking fellow who
asked him for a dollar: but not seeing why
he should give him dollar he asked the
fellow what his trouble was. The man
proceeded to explain that he was Prot
estant who had mariie led a Roman Catholic
wife, and that he was greatly prosecuted
by the Catholics, adding, when ! am out
with my children going to Sunday School,
they hurl the worst kind of epitaphs at
me-" ''Dreadful,' said my friend land
do they throw tomb stones, tooi' Indeed
they do, said the fellow, and he got his
dollar Now have a number OF epitaphs
and tomb stones too. that | am going to
throw at you.
My geological excursions to various pla-
ces in New England have carried me near
to many of the oldest buryii grounds i'll
the country, and a curiosity to know if
such names as Mercy, Servethe-Lord
Smith, Charity Recompense Jones, and
many others that our books tell US be-
longed to the Puritans, ever really existed
has led me to look for them on the tomb
stones. OF perhaps hundreds that | have
read only one shows such a name, and
that reads thus: 'Recompense Wadsworth,
a. NJ. First Master of ye Grammar Free
School at ye North End of Boston. Aged
about "a years; Died June ye 9th. 1113."
In the same burying ground find an
other interesting inscription that have
seen on as many as dozen head stones
This one is to the memory of Mary Huntly,
and reads:
''stop here my friend, ana cast an eye.
As You are now, so once was l;
As Am now, SO you must be,
Prepare Tor death and follow me.
Some wag has scratched Just below this
ITO follow you I'm not content
Mess ! know which way you went.
Very few of the stones express much
hope beyond the grave, and a large ma jOr
ity of them are Ornamented with skull and
cross bones, while one that | saw in Bos-
ton has upon it the Devil in pursuit of a
man. Nearly all of them contain warn
ings and many of them doubtful compli
ments. Here Is one:
.'Reniamin Parker near eghty-three,
Respectable you once did see.
Ills grandson lies over him,
We all must feel the effect of sin.
Another in the ground at Maiden, Mass
reads
All you that are alive
Now stand upon your gard
Least sudden death should come
And lind you unprepared
When death doth come
No man can it revoke
Neither in sickness
Nor from thunder stroke.
The town record shows that the man fell
off a hon SO nothpr near by dated
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-15
SALTWATER NEWS.

This evening the newly organized
Gothic club will dance at the 3. & L..
hall.
This afternoon the Parish Aid society,
of the Episcopal church, will meet at
the residence of Mrs. L. II. Warren, 800
South Fifth street.
August Boreen, and not Charles
Bremen, as reported by an evening
paper of this city, will entertain the
YasS club at his residence this evening.
Ben ROhrbach, who suffered the frac-
ture or a leg on Saturday last while en-
gagged in wrestling match, is now at
the city hospital, where he is progress
ing favOrably.
The York club held a special meeting
Tuesday evening to elect secretary to
fill the vacancy OccasiOned by the resig
nation of +. III. GadSby. After a
rather CLOSE run William Shortall
was chosen to fill the vacant seat.
Last evening the ladies of the Uniyer-
salist society held very pleasant social
at the residence of Mrs. William Mas
terman. A fine collation. was served
from to in the evening, to which
ample justice was paid by large num-
Der.
The ladies of the Baptist church held
a regular New England supper at Jay
Davies old stand this afternoon and
evening from to Q o'clock. The ladies
will also offer for sale a large number
of fancy, useful and ornamental articles,
so that after the inner man has been
satisfied the outer man may be made
comfortable
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-15
GLORULES.

Eleven births. three deaths and one mar
riage were bulletined at the health office yes
terday.
The st. James African NJ. E. church viii
hold fair Dee 1926 at the Swedenborgian
church.
Ambrose Tfghe has been appointed United
States commissioner ana master in chancery,
IN place of Judge CdrdozO deceased.
David Ramalev. proprietor of Ramaley's
Printing house. slipped on Fourth street,
near Wabasha, Tuesday night, and broke an
arm.
owners on the paving of Nina avenue yester-
day afternoon and laid the matter over for
further consideration.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
Seven Corners Snow Shoe club was held at
the clubs new headquarters. 236 West Third
street. last evening. Ten new members were
elected.
The board of abatement was in session yes
to-day. twenty-five applications for abate-
ment of taxes were received and indefinitely
postponed, awaiting the approval OF the state
treasurer.
The ladies of the Westminster Presbyterian
church of West ST. Paul will give an oyster
supper and social ct the church this evening,
the proceeds TO go toward defraying the ex
penses of the coming Christmas exercises of
The Sabbath school.
A laborer named John Swanson. employed
by Dale Il Bumgardner, blasting rock on
MARYLAND street. was struck by flying piece
of rock yesterday morning. His left leg was
broken below the knee and his right leg Sc
verely injured. He was taken to the city hos
pital.
communication to the GLOBE from the
secretary of the st. Croix Lumber company,
at saltwater says that Capt. L. S. Austin
was enormously named as president of that
company by the GLOBE in a recent issue.
Mr. Austin, he says, is in no way connected
with that company.
Property owners interested in the proposed
paving of Kent street were given hearing
before the board of public works yesterday.
The preliminary order provides for paving
the street with asphalt, from Summit avenue
TO Ashland avenue, and the matter was again
laid over to give parties an opportunity to be
heard on the question of extending the pave
ment further out
The st. Paul conference of Woman's
Christian Temperance unions will meet to-
day at 3 p. M at So East Seventh street Fle
conference will be addressed by Mrs. Prof.
n. H. Winchell, state superintendent of scion
tific temperance instruction, and Miss 4. VI.
Henderson. assistant superintendent, who
will give repor of the National W. G.. T. L,
recently convened at Nashville, Tenn